Mother

By Suzanna Fitzpatrick

Suzanna Fitzpatrick's visceral poem considers the socially-enforced self-denial of motherhood. Read More

You’ll Always Have a Story

By Laura Schuller

Laura Schuller explores the necessity of telling yourself stories in order to live. Read More

#yogaeverydamnday

By Rachel David

Rachel David imagines the freedom of being a cat: not just being super strong and flexible, but mainly being able to do all this and not care what other people think Read More

Face-to-face

By Kate Todd

Kate Todd cleverly explores ideas of the public and private self and perception through a scene at a public art gallery. Read More

Meet our books

With four collections of fiction, non-fiction and poetry out in the world, we wanted to take a moment to reintroduce you to this empowering gang – through a bit of speed dating. Read More

Orange-ringed

By Zoe Turner

Zoe Turner explores objects and the way we curate moments for ourselves every day, as well as how our emotional lives are reflected by our physical spaces. Read More

A Riddle

By Matilda Nevin

Internal and external perceptions of ego blur in Matilda Nevin's poem. Read More

Ep 14: So Long As You Write

To mark the publication of SLAYW, we're back with an episode celebrating the magic of putting pen to paper. Featuring exclusive readings from the contributors and a discussion on what writing means to you.   Read More

Our next theme: EGO

This submission theme is now closed. Read More

Submit your writing for DD’s next publication opportunity – a collection by a single author

This submission opportunity is now closed. Read More